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The vast scientific achievements and the stupendous industrial growth for which the nineteenth century deserves distinction are insignificant beside the intellectual awakening of half the human race which the same century produced and fostered. As a result of that feminine renascence, nations are now receiving the largest, the most intelligent, the most enthusiastic class of voters which has ever been admitted under one enfranchisement* And yet in the manner which history proves but too usual women are figuratively and literally patting each other's backs in the exuberance of egotism that forgets all precedent in the gladsome, "I--and my generation, we did it!" Naturally the leaders of the modern women's political movement are cognizant of the fact that the legal struggle is age-long and that there were primitive societies in which woman's status, in comparison with that of her fellow humans, was higher than at present; but the laity feel that in achieving woman suffrage, with its subsequent political freedom, "something new under the sun" has at last been unearthed. |
